One Day workshop on "Identifying and Protecting IPR in Academia" was conducted on 27 January, 2016. Mr. Omprakash, Mr. Sathiyan and Mr. Himatej from OMS Patent Services, Bangalore were the resource persons.

MHRD sponsored short course under GIAN on "Internet of Things (IoT)" was conducted on January 18-22, 2016 by Dr. KrishPrabhu, CTO, AT&T Inc., U.S.A.

Guest lecture on "Direct optical detection of spin-Hall effect in metals" by Mr. AkshayPattabhi , Research Scholar, UCBerkely (2014 EC Alumnus) was held on January 6, 2016.

Invited talk on "Next Generation Telecommunication Systems – Key Challenges and Opportunities" by Prof. Krishna Shenai, Vice President of LoPel Corporation, Naperville, Illinois, Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and R&D consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA. The event was held on 30 December, 2015.